“I shall lose him, when he’s grown up.... Oh, let me be thankful that I have him still!...”
Then, tired out, she went to sleep; and he left her, thinking to himself:
“They both feel the same thing!”
Chapter V
She tried tyrannically to monopolize her son, so that Van der Welcke became very jealous. It was the next day, Wednesday afternoon.
“Are you coming with me to Granny’s?”
“I promised Papa to go cycling.”
“You’ve had seven weeks for cycling with Papa.”
“I promised him yesterday that I would go for a long ride to-day.”